gout
/ɡaʊt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.06 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global."
- "Alternative forms: gut, gutt"
- "I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood."
- "... of whose wounds were undefined - and every throb of the veins added length to some of the red streams, that wound down the hollows of the indrawn cheeks - some of them ending in half-clotted gouts or drops."
- "... there sprang a gout of black and oozy blood. Whereat a great cry went up and James Mure fell forward on the sand as one suddenly stricken dead."
- "... gouts or drops from the hand of Zeus."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɡaʊt/
- British English: /ɡaʊt/